Road-dressing machine.



A. E. SCHENCK. ROAD DRESSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION man NOV. n, 1915. 1,229,529" Patented June 12, 1917.

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ROAD DRESSING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED NOV-11.1916- Patented June 12, 1917.

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ARTHUR -E. SCHENCK, OF HAMILTON, OHIO.

ROAD-DRESSIN G MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 1917.

Application filed. November I1, 1916. Serial No. 130,730.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Anon-run E. SCHENOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Road-Dressing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to machines for dressing roads, and relates to an improved construction of machine by means of which the furrows formed in a road by wheels of vehicles may have the road material at the sides of the furrows replaced in the furrows and packed down, the road material which has thus been replaced in the furrows being the material displaced from the roadbed and cast up at the sides of the furrows. Taking a road damaged by the furrowing action of vehicle wheels, each furrow has its bottom below the normal level of the road surface and is flanked by the material displaced from the furrow, this displaced lanking material representing a line of material at each side of the furrow and standing above the normal level of the road sur face. My improved machine replaces this sidewise displaced material into the furrow and packs it down leaving the road surface at the normal level.

My invention will be readily understood from the following description taken in con; nection with the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a plan of a road-dressing machine exemplifying my invention, certain scat-standards appearing in horizontal section in the plane of line b of Fig. 2:

Fig. 2 a side elevation of the machine:

Fig. 3 a front elevation of the machine, the dressing-blades and the forward portions of the draft-rigging being omitted:

Fig. 1 a vertical section of the machine in the plane of line a of Figs. 1 and 2: and

Fig. 5 a vertical section of one of the dressing-members in the plane of line a of Figs. 1 and 2.

A diversity of scales is employed in the drawings.

In the drawings 1, indicates a pair of angle-bars disposed horizontally with their rear ends separated from each other, the bars diverging forwardly and having their vertical anges projecting downwardly and their horizontal flanges projecting outwardly:

2, a similar pair of angle-bars disposed above and secured to and reinforcing the first pair of bars:

3, a dressing-blade secured removably against the inner surface of each of the angle-bars 1, the upper and lower edges of these diessingblades being beveled:

4, the spacebetween the heels of the anglemembers and between the heels of the dressing-blades:

5, a standard having its base secured to the angle-members near their heels:

6, a cross-tie rigid-1y connecting the two angle -members at intermediate points in their length:

7, a standard having its base rigidly connected with the two angle-members near their forward ends, the two standards and the cross-tie thus serving as means for uniting the two angle-members and their dressing-blades into a rigid A-shaped dressingframe with its apex rearward and open:

8, a bearing carried at the top of each of the standards:

9, a steering-shaft journaled in these bearmgs:

10, a handwheel on the steeringshaft:

11, a reel fast on the forward portion of the steering-shaft:

12, a heavy roller so disposed as to trail behind the dressing-frame:

v13, hounds extending forward from the axle of the roller and forming a rollerframe:

141, a tongue secured to the roller-fran1e and projecting forward through the two standards and below the steering shaft:

15, a wrapping connector, such as a rope or chain, having its ends secured to the sides of the tongue at its forward portion, the

connector passing thence outwardly and turning over sheaves supported by vertical bars rising from the forward portion of the angle-members and going thence to the reel on the steering-shaft:

16, an opening through rear standard 5, through which the tongue passes, this open ing being somewhat wider than the tongue, so as to permit the tongue to vibrate horizontally with its engagement in this opening as a sort of a pivot, the opening being high enough to permit the tongue to rise and fall relative to the dressing-frame:

17, a draft-member disposed along the tongue and having its rear end linked to the tongue so that the draft-rod and tongue may swing sidewise relative to each other:

. of the dressing-frame and the tongue and serving as means by which the heel of the dressing-frame may be elevated relative to the tongue:

22, a trailing shoe pivotedat the forward end of each of the side members of the dressing-frame: g

23, hand-levers by means of which the trailing ends ofthese shoes may be raised and lowered relative to the active lower edges:

edges of the dressing-blades so as to set the trailing ends of the shoes at or near those 24:, seat-uprights rising from the dressingframe and from the, roller-frame, the sheaves of the steering connector 15 being supportedby the forward uprights on the dressing-frame: r

25, a seat supported by the uprights o the roller-framez and r 26, a seat supported by the uprights of the dressing-frame.

The tractive agent, team or tractor, pulls the machine along the road with the side members of the dressing-frame straddling the furrow which is to be dealt With. Such steering asis necessary may be accomplished by turning the reel to swing the forward end of the tongue sidewise, the tongue pivoting where it passes through the rear standard, and the flexibility of the draft-system readily permitting the steering movements of the parts. In operation the loweractive edges of the dressing-blades should work at substantially the normal level of the road surface. The heel of the dressing-frame may, when desired, be somewhat elevated, relative to the tongue, by operating footlever 21, and shoes 22,sliding at substantially the normal road level, may be adjust- I ed to prevent the forward ends of the dressing-blades from digging into the normal road surface or to preventthem from working as low as the normal road surface. The

dressing-blades are beveled at their upper and lower edges and, being removable from the angle-members which carry them, they may be reversed to bring unworn edges into action.

Given an undesirably furrowed road, say of gravel, the machine is to be drawn along the road with the dressing-frame straddling the furrow. The dressing-blades gather inwardly the displaced material flanking the furrow and deposit and heap that material in the furrow, the roller following and compacting the replaced material, leaving the road surface in substantially the condition it was before any damaging furrowing took place.

I claim I r l. A road-dressing machine comprising, an A-shaped dressing-frame with its apex rearward and open, a roller-frame and roller 'to the rear of the dressing-frame, a tongue projecting rigidly from the roller-frame and connected with the dressing-frame in a manner to permit of relative angular mo tion of the roller-frameand the dressingframe, draft-members flexibly and independently connected to the tongue and to the front of the dressing-frame, and mechanism for swinging the front end of; the tongue sidewise relative. to the dressingframe, combined substantially as set forth. 2. A road-dressing machine comprising,

. a pair of-dressing members separated from each other at their heels and diverging forwardly, standards rigidly connecting the.

front and rear portions of the dressingmembers, a roller-frameand roller at the rear of the pair of dressing-members, a tongue projecting rigidly from the roller-frame and forwardly through the rear one of said," I standards and adapted for horizontal oscillation withsaid rearstandard as a pivot, a steering-shaft mounted in bearings carrled by said standards,a reel on said steering-shaft, a flexible connector wound upon I said reel and having its ends engaging the forward portion of thetongue and having intermediate portions engaging sheaves rigidly connected with the dressing-members, and draft-members flexibly connected with the tongue and with the forward ends of the as set forth. V

ARTHUR E. SCHENCKQ Witnessesi V M. S. BELDEN, 7 CHARLES VOLLBREOHT.

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